Chen Gui was born in the Chen family in Lingnan. His family tree can be traced back to the Eastern Han Dynasty. He seems to be a member of the Chen royal family in the Southern Dynasties.
Descendants of the Yan and Huang Dynasties, whose ancestors have never been wealthy?
In the Ming Dynasty, there were not many officials from Chen Gui's lineage, but maritime trade was booming. Especially after the opening of Guangzhou, the Chen family's sea-going ships grew to dozens of ships. They mainly purchased porcelain, tung oil and other commodities from Jiangxi and shipped them to
It is sold in Southeast Asia and India, and spices and gems are transported back from Southeast Asia and India.
The steam engine brought about a large-scale textile industry, and Guangdong merchants were so jealous that they even sent their children to study and successfully imitated the steam spinning machine.
However, Guangdong lacks raw materials and does not produce cotton in this poor place!
Cotton from Jiangnan and Shandong has long been occupied by merchants from other provinces. Guangdong merchants can only buy Chu cotton, but the yield rate of Chu cotton is not high and the quality of the cotton cloth spun is not good.
As a result, Guangdong merchants became the pioneers in exploring India. They were eager for a stable and high-yielding cotton producing area!
As the second son of the family, Chen Gui was sent to Tianzhu to manage the farm. The family spent more than 100,000 taels of silver and finally acquired 180,000 acres of land, immigrated thousands of people, and recruited hundreds of private soldiers.
This land is located along the Cauvery River. The land is very fertile and mainly grows cotton, rice and sugar cane.
The farmers in Tianzhu were too lazy and brought bad luck to the Han immigrants. Chen Gui was worried about this and tried countless methods. In the end, he could only ask his family to continue to provide money for immigration.
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Under the auspices of Zhang Yao, six people, regardless of whether they were Han Chinese or indigenous people, each person was assigned ten acres of land as a base for farming. These ten acres of land were called "base fields", and the land rent was as high as 70%, which was a severe enough exploitation.
In addition to the ten acres, each person can rent three more acres. These three acres of land are called "increased fields", and the land rent is as high as 60%.
When crops are harvested every year, tenants whose yield per mu is higher than the average can be granted an additional five acres of land in the coming year. These five acres of land are called "premium fields" and the land rent is only 50%. And the 500 tenants with the highest yield per mu can receive an additional
If you farm another five acres of land, these five acres of land are called "self-owned land", and the land rent is only 40%.
The above-mentioned yield per mu is calculated as the average number of cultivated land under the name of each tenant. Excessive farming will lead to a decrease in the average, and the seeds are provided by the landlord.
As punishment, if the tenant has a minimum yield of 300 per mu, the whole family will be permanently expelled from the farm!
There is also an ultimate reward, which is calculated once every three years. The two hundred tenants who have paid the most rent can save their own money and contribute their own money. The landlord will contact the government to help them purchase five acres of land, which will be their private land forever.
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If you are rated high for nine consecutive years, you will be able to accumulate fifteen acres of private land, which can definitely be regarded as getting rich through hard work.
Landlords dare to play tricks and tamper with statistics?
That would be a good time to take the opportunity to develop the Jishi Sect and unite to force the landlords to be honest.
Once this system was implemented, the Han people cheered and were instantly motivated. They worked on the land from dawn to dusk, and would go around a few times to pull out all the weeds in the fields.
The local lower castes and untouchables seemed not to understand. Only a few became diligent, while the majority continued to muddle along.
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After careful interviews and inquiries, Zhang Yao finally figured out the reason, but the locals didn't believe it at all!
Then come a group of "Yuanmen Limu", let the low castes and untouchables sign up, and choose ten people to dig a well together. As long as water can be dug out, a cart of grain will be immediately rewarded, which will be divided equally among the ten people who dug the well.
After the rewards were fulfilled, a large number of low castes and untouchables were mobilized and began to enthusiastically engage in agricultural production.
Don't discriminate against any race or group. Everyone wants to live a good life, and there are deep-seated reasons for laziness. As long as you give them hope, most people are still willing to hold on. The greater the hope, the tighter they hold on.
Of course, there are also a handful of people who are really lazy and hopeless!
Zhang Yao and the other six learned farming techniques and indigenous languages at the same time. When they were almost done, they went to teach the indigenous people on a voluntary basis, helped low-caste and untouchable people improve their planting techniques, and organized them to form mutual aid groups to avoid being thrown away by the Han people.
too far.
Don’t rush to preach for now, wait until you get familiar with it.
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Chen Gui looked at the lively scene and couldn't help but admired: "Six great talents!"
Zhang Yao smiled and said: "I am from a craftsman family in Hangzhou, and I know what the common people want. When a craftsman does things for the government, he hides when he can, perfuses when he can, and is lazy when he can. Whoever does it will do it if he can't get any benefits.
Huh? If it were a matter of their own business, every craftsman would be very hard-working. The same goes for these farmers. As long as we set up a system so that the harder they work, the more benefits they will get. Of course they will work hard for themselves."
Chen Gui praised: "You are indeed a master of physics! If the six brothers stay to help, Chen is willing to hire them on a long-term basis, each of them will receive five taels of silver per month, and there will be gifts during the holidays."
Zhang Yao said: "Three taels of monthly salary is enough. I have a request."
"But it doesn't matter." Chen Gui said.
Zhang Yao said: "Run a school with free tuition. Children of tenant farmers in the village, regardless of whether they are Han Chinese or not, aged above seven and below twelve, must come to the school to study. Once they violate the rules, the whole family will be expelled!"
Chen Gui said: "After the Han people came to Tianzhu, although they had children born, they were still less than three years old. If you want to set up a school, you can only teach the indigenous children to read."
Zhang Yao smiled and said: "As long as you are a human being, no matter what race you are, you can bathe in the holy religion. Brother Chen, if we carry out the teaching for twenty years, everyone in the younger generation in the village will be able to speak Chinese and write Chinese characters. Save
How much did it cost you to immigrate?”
Chen Gui thought carefully, nodded and said, "Okay."
Promoting education is easier said than done.
These Tianzhu children have to be taught language from the beginning. There are occasionally some smart ones, but most of the students can make the teacher angry to death.
Moreover, children are influenced by their parents, especially untouchable children. They have been brainwashed by the caste system for a long time and believe that they have no ability to learn knowledge. They goof around in class, but they seem to be listening carefully. During the exam, they are confused about all the questions.
Half a year later, Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, went south and met six members of the Jishi Sect.
After in-depth exchanges between the two parties, Zhang Yao and others were infected by Nanak's personal charm, and Nanak was also impressed by the various theoretical knowledge of the school of physics.
Soon, they reached a consensus and each revised some of the teachings.
Sikhism is the Jishi sect, and the Jishi sect is Sikhism, which belongs to different sects of the same religion. The core ideas are: equality of all living beings, respect for knowledge, freedom of belief, advocating frugality, loving work, and helping those in need.
The emblem was redesigned, with a dagger and a long sword crossed diagonally.
The Jishi sect respects Wang Yuan as its great master, and the Sikhs respect Nanak as their guru. They do not worship any gods or idols, but only pursue the way of heaven or truth.
Nanak personally stayed in South India to preach and hoped that Zhang Yao would help introduce several Han manor owners to gain the recognition of the Han rulers here.
Language is not a barrier, because there are hundreds of languages in India. The Hindi used by Sikhs is not yet mature. Even within Hindi, there are different scripts, absorbing Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian,
Devanagari script and many other texts.
Moreover, whether it is Hindi or Chinese, they are foreign languages in the places where they preach, because the mainstream language here is Tamil.
Rather than preaching, it is better to say that it is spreading culture. First, these people must be taught to read and read, and then the faith can be spread around the literate people.
The Sikh sect (Sikhism), which is mutually reforming and compatible, is definitely the most secular and progressive religion in the world. They even proposed equality between men and women, attached great importance to knowledge and culture, advocated hard work to get rich, and prohibited believers from practicing asceticism and begging.
By the way, the two parties also jointly compiled a scripture, which is probably the simplest scripture in the world, with bilingual records in Hindi and Chinese.
The general content is: Chaos has just begun, and Yin (light) and Yang (darkness) stand in harmony. Regardless of gods, Buddhas, and Allah, they are all incarnations of the way of heaven (truth). All living beings are inherently equal, and people in the world should respect and love each other. There is a religion to save the world.
(Sikhs) do not worship gods, but only worship this holy book. The great master (guru) leads the believers to love each other, sweep away the filth, and welcome the light.
There were only so many "Original Canons" of Sikhism in the early days of the religion, and successive masters continued to add and delete them, until it became more than a thousand pages thick.
The two parties agreed that the "Holy Scripture" shared by everyone could not be changed and could only be added in the form of attachments. For example, "Mathematics" and "Physics" would be thrown in by the Jishi Sect, and some simple canons would also be added.
When Wang Yuan, who was far away in Beijing, got this "Holy Scripture" and learned that the Jishi Sect and Sikhism merged, he was dumbfounded.
Both factions are quite naive. After all, the combined time of establishment of both parties is less than 20 years. Their spread in India depends entirely on the Indian caste system and religious conflicts. After all, there are always some people at the bottom who want to get rid of their shackles.